Day two of the Great MPs' Expenses Scandal and if theDaily Telegraph's continuing account is to be trusted we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Britain can throw Labour out next summer for well-documented abuses of the system, let the police investigate at leisure and elect a wholesome Conservative government led by David Cameron.

There may not be a place in it for Greg Barker (cries of "who?") because the Tory MP for Bexhill and Battle since 2001, a junior energy spokesman, is today accused – on page six – of making £320,000 profit "flipping" his second home allowance at the expense of the taxpayer.

Is Barker the sacrificial Conservative lamb Labour has been warning them about – as I explained yesterday – or have the Telegraph's sleuths only got as far as B for Barker in their labour-intensive examination of supermarket and estate agents bills? No other Tory MP has yet been given the kind of roasting provided for errant Labour ministers this grim past 36 hours.

Wealthy Barbara Follett's £25,000 worth of "security patrols" (in Soho for heaven's sake!); Phil Woolas's women's clothing and nappies (£7.99, which he denies claiming); Phil Hope's genius in cramming £37,000 worth of new furniture into a very small London flat; today's Telegraph disclosures against small fry ministers – they fried the big fry yesterday – make more uncomfortable reading for the political class.

On ITN's News at Ten last night, political editor Tom Bradby – not a man to whom I have previously looked for moral guidance – and his team were given carte blanche to rage against the politicians. "If these allegations are true (note that if) there are going to have to be resignations," he thundered. It is the first time I have seen a political reporter call for resignations. Gosh.

But have all Tories (except Mr Barker) followed the advice of their saintly colleague Peter Bottomley who once told me an MP should never do anything they would be ashamed to see on the front page of their local newspaper?

Possibly, though they rarely listen to Peter's hard-won wisdom. It would be genuinely good news for the system if they had done and were as wholesome as he is. But we do not yet know. We are having to trust the Telegraph.

In obtaining the stolen/purchased/bootleg CD of expenses – by fair means or foul – the paper has gained an advantage over the rest of us in accessing material supposedly being processed by the House of Commons fees office, the people who sign off on members exes.

If the Tel is pleading the public interest (for which lawyers tell today's Guardian it may have a good case) it is surely important for that defence that it treats all the political parties fairly. Otherwise it might be treated as a case of handling stolen goods which were due to be published shortly anyway.

The Met police is on the case, but precedent suggests that investigation will go nowhere. It is almost as feeble for MPs to say this is primarily a police matter as it is to claim that everything they did was within the rules of the expenses system. Ministers should have taken a leaf out of M&S's new poster and admit "We Boobed".

After all, we all know the difference between what is legal and what is right. I prefer to recall a conversation with a decent Labour backbencher – never given a job by either Blair or Brown – who replaced the 20 year old TV set in his London flat with a modest new one, Panasonic as I recall. He felt it right only to charge the taxpayer half the cost because some would be for private use.

Are there many such MPs? I hope so, the vast majority in fact. We know that Tory MP Philip Hollobone has the lowest expense claim (he employs no staff) and Labour's Dennis Skinner the second lowest (he has never accepted a cup of tea from a hack: I've tried). I am confident that plenty of ministers and backbenchers – on all sides – are pretty fastidious. I bumped into a ministerial wife in the supermarket yesterday who said the same. Her husband is scrupulous, as even his political foes in his constituency now admit.

Allegra Stratton makes the point on GU today. The trouble is, so far as I can tell, the Telegraph isn't telling us about the good guys. Its list of errant cabinet ministers – 14 in all – includes three current non-cabinet members (Prescott, Beckett and Caroline Flint).

Does that mean that half the Brown cabinet is so far beyond reproach that not even the Torygraph can concoct a flimsy case against them, as it did against several named yesterday, Brown probably included (says me). The Telegraph website – "MPs expenses investigated in depth" – is frankly not conducive to confidence.

Curiously – or significantly – they have not turned any attention on the fees office or on Andrew Walker – the director general of resources at Westminster whose team signed off on some pretty louche claims. He was one obvious target of wave upon wave of blowhard columnists in today's Mail. Our Polly is relatively mild.

Tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph may resolve the dilemma by reaching beyond Labour's ranks and reporting the contents of the snaffled CDs. Let us hope so.

Pessimists are already warning that Labour defections and a low turnout by Disgusted of Dagenham in the June 4 European elections will also see BNP MEPs elected, potentially in significant numbers. It could happen, I agree.

But reading the Guardian's account today of how a BNP activist was linked to the 1993 murder of Chris Hani in South Africa may help prevent excessive folly in that direction. Ukip's expenses performance at Strasbourg is a suitable reminder that things could be worse than they are.

One diehard Labour optimist yesterday emailed me a council byelection result from Hartlepool where a 26% turnout in Rossmere ward delivered a comfy Labour win with the Tory candidate in fourth place. My chum says that's a timely reminder that David Cameron does not have it in the bag.